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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.
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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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... everyone must play his role.
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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
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There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.
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I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
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I spend about a year between novels
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